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"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."
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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 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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"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'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."
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