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feel no reason to go to another past to be all things to all men as an artist. That old cliche "To thine ownself be true". But how apt and important and beautiful a thing for an artist, because an artist is a lonely figure. He's not a mass figure. He's not a Reverend King or Abernathy. He's not any of these political figures. His is a lonely job. He sits in a studio. He is the sole producer, judge, evaluator, everything of his work of art. It takes no other people, like a play. It is not a collective effort of many people to put on a finished product. The artist is a lonely figure. So he has to be subjective. Poor Van Gough was so subjective, it led him to destroy himself, and that is the reason why many artists destroy themselves. It is not because they don't have an identity with people but a great love affair is so much to contain. It was too much for Van Gough to contain in his loneliness that he felt, his isolation, and he sought identity with people, and he had it with ___. Cathy Colwitz was a lonely figure. Goya, a man who had a feeling for life that was beyond comprehension, a lonely being. I am a lonely being. I paint in lonely figures. But out of that I say something I hope will be as meaningful and give as much inspiration as that guy who can be multiple things and do multiple areas of art, and some artists can do it. I know one of the great artists of our day, who for me is a great artist, Jack Levine. He can only paint hate. He's a magnificent artist!

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