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I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.
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The speaker says the paintings are not direct copies of reality. Everything is invented within the work, while anything originally seen or felt is reshaped into a personal style. The quote presents painting as a creative transformation: experience may provide the starting point, but the finished image is deliberately made and altered by the artist.
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