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"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."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
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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."
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"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
"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?'"
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"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."
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