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When asked if Brazil has influenced his work, Mabe has answered: "You know, since I was a child I have lived in Brazil. So, personality for me is the Brazilian citizen, is it not so? But face doesn´t help at all, does it? Changing into Japanese more and more. But I have been brought up in Brazil, so habits and thinking are much Brazilian way. Now, strong colors, these strong colors are also the sun from the interior of Brazil, from northwest. Hot sun and a very blue sky. Now, there are no mountains, it is a grass-covered plain up to one hundred kilometers, no mountains, always forest. And fruits, for example: tasteful, sweet and colored. So, since I was a child, red earth, blue sky, fruits, birds, parrots and another such. Very sentimental and much colored life also." |
"Within the flame of passion something crystallizes:
Mabe - 1985 |
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Enthusiastic and maintaining a high astral, he did not lose his good temper even when a Varig freighted plane transporting 53 paintings made by him being displayed all over the world - among them the most rewarded ones - fell down in 1979. The plane left Tokyo towards Los Angeles and the reasons for the accident have not been elucidated up to now. "Thanks be to God the painter is alive, thanks be to God he has not sunk in the sea", he joked. During 14 years he kept repainting a great part of the pictures owned by private heaps.
"It is necessary to always believe the dream and fight for making it become true". |
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