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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."
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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."

"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."

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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

"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."

"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."

"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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