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"I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me."
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"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."

"When coming to sex: First served, first come."

"I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me."
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"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."


"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."


"I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object."


"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."


"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."


"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."


"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."
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