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Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

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I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

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Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

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When I die there is nobody to take my place.

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If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

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You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

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Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

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I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 4th, 1958

Died: February 16th, 1990

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