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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 don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."
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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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"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"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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