“I watched Norman Mailer speak of Hemingway, saying that he, Hemingway, was a man of contradictions and that people of contradictions often, for that specific reason, turn to art. Maybe that is true for some artists, I don't know. Maybe I'm not that interested in art; but I'm interested in contradictions… Putting contradictory pieces together, colours, shapes that don't fit. Basically, that's what I do: I like putting things together; ugly things, broken, things that don't fit…”
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