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Dali, Klimt, Picasso, Monet and Chagall are my inspiration. I do not
copy them, but seek to listen to them, to understand their work so as to wink at them. Sad paintings do not inspire me, nor do sad painters. At times I paint sad, but as soon as I feel better I paint over it and my mood is kept secret. A flowerpot, dull in green-khaki, is thus transformed with pineapple yellow. My heart and soul goes into each painting, my past, my present and my future. I am the queen of superimposing layers — if I only sold by weight! I can spend up to one year to complete a painting, always changing something, the length of a dancer’s skirt, the nuance of hair color, the shape of a hat. And as oils take from three months to one year to dry… There are perpetual doubts, battles between me and color. When I do a painting, I always fear it may be my last; that this state of grace and freedom will evaporate. There are those paintings for which I cry when sold. |
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