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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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"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."
"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
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