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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.

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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
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