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"I hate painting."
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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

"Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love."

"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
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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."

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

"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."

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

"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."

"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."

"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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