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As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.
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Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
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With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
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In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
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I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.
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I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
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Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
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Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.
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I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
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Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
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Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
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