Inspiration is a great thing. What did Homer say? "Man called me, muse, kindred ..." He asks the muse to inspire him to describe the man who suffered so much and so he passed. And Hesiod in Works and Days pleads with the muses to inspire him.
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I loved the ancient vases because they depicted people as shadows. One might say they look like Shadow Theater. Shadow is a very big thing. You can give it tons and you can get a great deal of detail. I often painted in the room where I stayed in Paris and I woke up and I watched those shades I had made and I thought they were people who had come in. I was afraid of my own works. I am a humanist in painting. You should not make him as he is, but as you see him. Like when you travel with a ship from afar you see an island and everything seems flat. You see a blue and as you approach, you can see the ocher in the mountains. When illuminated by the sun, you think they are decked with scissors.
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