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“I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.”

Quote by Stephen Beal

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Stephen Beal is an artist, whose life and artistic achievements are currently limited in available information. more

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“I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.”

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“Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.”

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