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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…
• A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an…
• I never think that anything I do is courageous.
• Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its…
• Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
• 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…
• I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
• The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures…
• I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much…
• I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
• I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
• My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

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