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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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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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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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"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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"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
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"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."
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"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."
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"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."
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"Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it."
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"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
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"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."
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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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"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."
Art
"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."
Art
"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."
Work
"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."
Art
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
Old
"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
Painting
"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?'"
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"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."
Work
"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."
Language
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