He says all this in words, but he confirms it by practice as he feels he does not count the value (not the artistic but the economic) of his signature. So, once the tape recorder closes, he says: “Do not leave, stay and watch me paint.” And in about half an hour he draws a handful of apricots that he had bought a while ago and gave them to his friend, a plan to offer it to me, a rose that stood in a cut bottle of water, one of his known faces in a porcelain ashtray for another friend who came at that moment, while he puts again, to a painting that they had just brought back to him from a gallery, his signature due to the fact that it was barely visible.
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