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"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
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"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
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"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
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