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" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "

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" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "

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" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "

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