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
Perfect, Through, Boxes, Etc
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
Some, Images, Painted, Categories
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
Space, Chelsea, Guard, Facilities
Taxidermy is the one thing I collect that I've never used.
- Donald Baechler
Never, Used, One Thing, Collect
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
Mirrors, Old, Need, Serial
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
Image, Rather, Abstraction, Quality
I'm a pack rat, like most people.
- Donald Baechler
Rat, Like, Most, Pack
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