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The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

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I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.

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It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

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The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

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I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

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I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

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Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

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An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.

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I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.

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I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 22nd, 1938

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