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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."
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"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
"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."
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
"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."
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