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"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."


"At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery."


"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 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."


"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."


"To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible."
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