I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
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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 have hardly changed.Howard Hodgkin
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 look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
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I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
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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.
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
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