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information quality which has been suggested as belonging to the dots, particularly the way I am doing them now, which is a little bit different from the way I did them when I was more strictly imitating industrial printing. Now the dots have become something else I think, other than that. All of these qualities are more brutal, more antiseptic and more present day, I think.

AS: Why do you want to be brutal and antiseptic?

RL: Well, I don't think it makes too much difference what the quality of a painting is. I think it can be beautiful, serene, it can be lovely, charming, it can be very aggressive, it can be anything. But, I think that whatever approach one uses, he ought to go as far as he can with it, in order to make it have as much impact as possible. And I think the one that I've chosen (I've no idea why, because I haven't always painted this way) [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] maybe the one I've just gotten into, seems to lead toward a kind of brutal and antiseptic quality. So, since I'm working in this area I would try to push that style as far as I can. 

AS: [[strikethrough]] Is what you're [[/strikethrough]] Are you saying that this new sensibility [[strikethrough]] 's about [[/strikethrough]] concerns a certain kind of openness, about what's beautiful, what's not beautiful, and so on?

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