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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 remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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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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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"You cannot have your cake and eat it."
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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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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
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"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
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"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
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"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
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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."
Friendship
"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."
Art
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
Painting
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
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"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
People
"I think that words are often extraneous to what I do."
Art
"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'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."
Art
"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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"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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