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Painting Because Life Is Fragile
Post #1700 • May 28, 2014, 1:05 PM
![[Image: Will Barnet, The Purple Bottle, 1989-1999, oil on canvas, 34 x 38 1/2 inches, courtesy of ]](http://www.artblog.net/static/posts/2014/05/barnet/barnet.jpg)
Will Barnet, The Purple Bottle, 1989-1999, oil on canvas, 34 x 38 1/2 inches, courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
From Will Barnet at 100 by Bruce Weber:
One of the things that made me become a painter was the need to give certain permanence to living. I felt life was very fragile. There are certain moments in life you want to hang onto and by painting them you can give these moments a kind of immortality.