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The Spitfire and the Porsche and the battleship have something of perfection in their design. They are anonymous in their beauty, like the fleur-de-lys, and compelling, like heraldic ciphers of the 20th century.

— Brian Clarke

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The desolate truth carried in profundity is made even more striking when matched by the sublime energy of the decorative.

Painting is a way for me to view the world as it exists and the world as it might be.

As punk rock was able to sweep the board clean in music, so must the board be cleared in visual art.

Punk articulated the vitriolic disapproval by the young of the sneaking complacency in music, art, politics and perhaps most important of all - the environment.

Art is reimbued with its genuine power and profundity in the architectural realm. Its real power lies in the cathedral, the shopping center, the hospital. Not in the studios of Soho and Chelsea or the galleries of Madison Avenue or Bond Street.

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