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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."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
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