A Quote by Joe Bradley
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
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I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
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