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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."
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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."
"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."
"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"
"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."
"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."
"The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love."
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"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."
"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."
"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 find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"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?'"
"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."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
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