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"I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does."
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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."
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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."
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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
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"My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot."
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"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."
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"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."
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"Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper."
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"Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right."
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"Pollock looks unusual and radical even now."
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"And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman."
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"I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated."
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"Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period."
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"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is."
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"Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
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