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• ‟ My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

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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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• ‟ I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

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• ‟ To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

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• ‟ To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

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• ‟ I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

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• ‟ Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

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• ‟ My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

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

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