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I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way…
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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…
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I never think that anything I do is courageous.
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Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its…
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Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
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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…
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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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The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures…
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I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much…
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
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Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature,…
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect…
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If I collect anything, it's lingerie.
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I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.
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I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order…
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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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…
— Howard Hodgkin
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I collect spores, molds, and fungus
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I love art, I collect mostly modern art.
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I collect things that just look retarded.
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I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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