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Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, Long Island, and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Abstract, Boring, Jealousy, Littles, Maybe, Truth

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Artist, Being An Artist, Idea, Ideas, Liked

One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

Night, Perfect, Queens, Seen, Tunnel, Tunnels

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Art, Believe, Communicates, Mood

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

Black, Except, People, Seven, Seven Months

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

Canvases, Know, Knows, Remembers Everything, Superficial Things, Things

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