Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into … - Jose Parla

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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Jose Parla

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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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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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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The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

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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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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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