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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.