"I started painting in 1990, when I was seventy-three years old,
at the urging of my daughter and my wife. They kept cracking the
whip. My daughter would say, "My daddy can do anything." She is a
folklorist, an anthropologist, and she would beg me:
"Would you please,
please paint what you remember?"
"I consider myself
a storehouse of memories. My project is to paint prewar life in a
small Jewish town in Poland. That's what really interests me. The
way I paint is important, of course, but the most important thing
is to get a subject. I have to get a subject. I think about it...I
remember. It just comes to me....The subjects I decide to paint
are those that have a story to tell....I paint these scenes as I
remember them as a child...."
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