My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
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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 object.Howard Hodgkin
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
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In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
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I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
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I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
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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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