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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

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I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

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I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

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There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

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I became a set designer for opera.

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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: June 10th, 1928

Died: May 8th, 2012

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