- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate painting.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020