I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

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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 one of nature's shoppers.

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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 don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

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A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

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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 you'd get any feedback.

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