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"I hate painting."
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"I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point."
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"I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining."
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"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."
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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
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"I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it."
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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."
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"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."
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"I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?"
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"I hate having to read the manual."
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"I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera."
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"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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"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
Thought
"I hate painting."
Hate
"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
"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
"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."
Nature
"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?'"
Want
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
Friendship
"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."
Isolation
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