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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Death is an art, you know.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.