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Lee Krasner

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I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... ...if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
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"Art Talk, Conversations with 15 woman artists", Cindy Nemser, 1975, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 1995, p. 93

 
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