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"I hate painting."
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
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"When you hate somebody...you give him chance mastering your heart."
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"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests."
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"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."
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"It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented."
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"She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with."
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"Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!"
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"I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks."
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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 hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?."
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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
"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 painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
Painting
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
Nothing
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
Thought
"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."
Isolation
"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
"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 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
"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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