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I paint because I have to. It's the only way I have of expressing my very active inner life. My emotions,
unconscious mind and my intuitions are all called upon to comment on a particular idea. It's an
integral part of my life. It allows me to challenge, dissect, and make decisions on elements that are
intellectual and intangible in the physical aspect of living. But it also colors the physical and intrudes in
everything I do. I've been working in art and painting my entire life. Styles evolve slowly from one to
another in a natural rhythm, paralleling my life; life becomes reflected in the work.

It's great too, because I have a time and space to explore and drift…. My time, my space. Art is the only
place where you can do pretty much what you want to do…..no rules….just your rules. You can never
die…..there's always more to learn, more to do, more to grow.   And you can escape…..escape from all
the daily things that are not really important……You can sometimes touch the other dimension, the
spiritual realm.    It's all very exciting. And it's often very hard. Painting is not easy if you are true to
yourself because you always have to deliver the right combination of things to the work, to yourself….
and you are constantly judging and criticizing the result. You have to learn how to balance and
harmonize in every aspect of it….just like real life.    It is real life..to me.

Linda Butti

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