“I believe that art has a kind of Rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false. And that's why classical paintings, which are right in their own terms, are so necessary for me. In addition to that there's nature, which also has this rightness.”

Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 106, note 59

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