This fashion after fashion is phony. It uses up and throws away artists as if they are lemon rinds. If one must try to look like something, I think one should try to look unfashionable. It seems a bit safer, somehow.
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| –-from a letter to Lee Aguinaldo, 3 April 1965, in Rod Paras–Perez, Fernando Zóbel (Manila: Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Inc., 1990) |
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| My painting has always been tranquil. I seek order in everything that surrounds me. In order, in the broadest sense of the word, I seek the explanation of beauty. A long time ago, I was struck by the fact that, in Japanese, the adjectives, clean and beautiful, are expressed by the same word. |
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| –-quoted in Rafael Perez–Madero, Zóbel: La Serie Blanca (Madrid: Ediciones Rayuela, 1978) |
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