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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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"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."
"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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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
"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."
"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
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