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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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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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

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I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

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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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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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You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

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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.

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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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Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

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