Larry Rivers quotes
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“Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.”
-- Larry RiversSource : Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery
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“I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.”
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“I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.”
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“I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.”
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“I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.”
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“One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.”
-- Larry RiversSource : Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter
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