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"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."
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"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
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"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."
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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."
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"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
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"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."
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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
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"I hate painting."
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"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
Self
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
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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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"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."
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"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
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"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."
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