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"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."
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"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."
"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous."
"But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning."
"When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system."
"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."
"If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night."
"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house."
"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
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"The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see."
"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"
"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."
"Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined."
"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."
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