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• ‟ I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

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• ‟ The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

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• ‟ I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

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• ‟ We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

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• ‟ My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.

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• ‟ From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

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• ‟ Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

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