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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."

"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."

"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."

"One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere."

"One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury."

"I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to."
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