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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.”

Quote by Jose Parla

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Jose Parla

Jose Parla, born in 1973, is a mysterious artist whose works blend street art with contemporary art, characterized by unique style and imagination. more

“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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Author:Jose Parla

“I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.”

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“Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.”

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Author:Don Henley

“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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Author: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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Author:Jose Parla

“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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Author:Jose Parla

“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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Author:Jose Parla

“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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Author:Jose Parla

“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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