Quotes by Jose Parla - Page 1

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.
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Bears
Past
Wall
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I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.
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Energy
Lucky
Too Much
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Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.
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Color
Memories
Thinking
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My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.
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Exploration
Painting
Self
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I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.
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Artist
Thinking
World
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When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.
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Art
Reading
Wall
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For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.
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Art
Pieces
Wall
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If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.
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Moving
Thinking
Writing
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People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.
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Fun
Moving
Writing
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You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.
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Eye
Memories
Practice
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I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.
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Giving
Past
Roots
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Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.
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Being Thankful
Healthy
Honesty
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As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.
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Art
New York
Beautiful
Fun
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One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.
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New York
Teacher
Black And White
Photography
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Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."
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Artist
Hate
Thinking
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My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a wall and leaves a mark. Then I'm someone else, who 10 days later leaves another mark. Someone was angry and did this, and then someone came and painted over it, and then the sun bleached it out and the weather exposed it again.
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Character
Wall
Weather
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