>  The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. Lucian Freud A Good artist has less time than ideas. Martin Kippenberger   Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude Monet I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. John Olsen There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso                                                                            (next)>