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To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.

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I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the space shuttle that lifts off doesn't much resemble the space shuttle as it lands.

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I should be paid to go out. You see, I'm good for business. I class up a joint.

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You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.

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My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.

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Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.

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I don't have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much.

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I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side.

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I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.

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