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"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
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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."
"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."
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
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