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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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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"I started skating when I was six years old."
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"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
Art
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
Friendship
"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."
Nature
"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."
Work
"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."
Work
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
Painting
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
Nothing
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
Thought
"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."
Isolation
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
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