“He opened the door that so many of us went through, the door of possibility, by saying anything an artist makes is art.”

—  Peter Blake

Serena Davies, "In the studio:Peter Blake, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/13/bastudio13.xml The Daily Telegraph, 2005-12-13
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