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"Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."

"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."

"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."

"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."

"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
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