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I’m not trying to be different. To me, it’s the only way I know how to paint.
Reality is not what we see, but what we discover through art.
I am not a modern artist, I am a timeless artist.
"Tradition is not a cage, but wings for the artist."
"True art must serve the people, not the elite."
"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
"I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking it's a photograph. I'm trying to make a painting that has its own reality."
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I understand.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
