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• When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
• Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.
• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.…
• I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time
• I had my freedom and that was nice
• I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be…
• It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on…
• And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
• I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and…
• I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose…
• I never really separated painting and literature.
• The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

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