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American painter and sculptor (d. 2002), Birth: 17-8-1923, Death: 14-8-2002
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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
Larry Rivers

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I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers

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One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.
Larry Rivers

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I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
Larry Rivers

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I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.
Larry Rivers

Similar Authors: Winston Churchill Francis Bacon John Ruskin Leonardo da Vinci William Blake Henry Miller Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh Ai Weiwei Andy Warhol Alan Moore David Hockney Henri Matisse Samuel Richardson Robert Genn
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
Larry Rivers