Donald Baechler Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Donald Baechler:

I'll get boxes full of books and objects from perfect strangers in the oddest places. Teachers will send me students' drawings, etc. It's hard to sift through it all.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#34272b11

In the same way I accumulate objects, I also accumulate images, and I find them arranging themselves into categories, too. And some images insist on being painted; others don't.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#dd597150

I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#751755e7

I miss Dia. In the early '80s I was a guard at one of Dia's facilities in SoHo, and I'm sad that they closed their Chelsea space.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#36ec00e2

Taxidermy is the one thing I collect that I've never used.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#47dacf24

I'm a serial renovator of apartments and old houses, so I'm in daily need of doorknobs, subway tiles, and 14-foot-tall pier mirrors.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#63d9192b

I'm a pack rat, like most people.
~Donald Baechler


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-baechler-quotes/#35fbbc3c

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