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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"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 can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."


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


"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."


"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."


"I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad."


"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."


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