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"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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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."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
"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 find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
"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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