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"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer."

"Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love."
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"To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible."


"At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery."


"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."


"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."


"I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object."


"I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me."


"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."


"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."


"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."
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