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...I lived with Sekeros for about a year in the same house. He owned a big house there, and he let us have a place in it. And Pablo Higgins worked at the Tayeda....there as well as Riveria.

...Yes I had many things going for me. I guess the two things in my early life that had the most influence was studying with Harry Sternberg, who was a great teacher and open minded. For the first time, I opened my eyes to my feelings, which I had never quite pinned down to in my work. I found that he brought it out, so to speak. Harry had the tremendous capacity to assess a mam, to see into an individual and make him aware of his ownself, so to speak, and Harry was a most important influence. As well as the experience down in Mexico itself, where because of the nature of the kind of work I was doing was more geared to "social realism". I found that there were people in Mexico who were also dealing with that same kind of approach...This just highly influenced me.

...Sternberg, while being a painter, was also better known as a graphic artist. And I studied primarily graphics with him. And I guess in my work, I've always had a stronger leaning toward the graphics, and I've found that my own talents were best suited sometimes for the black and white medium rather than color. And I have never felt that color in itself was absolutely necessary for an artist to be an artist. In other 

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