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I sit for two or three hours ...

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

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Paint is something that I use...

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

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Once I said to my mother: 'Yo...

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

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I work in waves, because I'm ...

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

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I love my sculptures, and I w...

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

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It's instinctive in a certain...

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 with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

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Graffiti is linear and it's d...

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.

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When I work, I work very fast...

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

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And we who have always though...

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

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I would’ve liked to have been...

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

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Graffiti is linear, and it's ...

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

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To my mind, one does not put ...

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

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I love my sculptures, and I w...

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.

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My parents were from New Engl...

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

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Graffiti is usually a protest...

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

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I hate roses. Don't you? It's...

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

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I look at a lot of artists. I...

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

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I never really separated paint...

I never really separated painting and literature.

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It's instinctive in a certain ...

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 with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

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I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is...

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of 'Good taste.'

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