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Well you're internationally recognized as a painter--what does that mean?

HF

I know that's true--I really don't feel it. I have very little sense of it--even though I might look as if I have a great sense of it. I don't know why. I don't want to talk about/this.

INT

But doesn't it [[strikethrough]] afe [[/strikethrough]] affect your work at all? When you sit down to make a painting, you know that...

HF
If and when it does affect my work, the work is--the work usually suffers. I think the minute one sees that [[strikethrough]] kin [[/strikethrough]] world over the shoulder or people waiting for you to make what is familiar to them or waiting for you to make a mistake or waiting for you to fail or succeed to (INAUDIBLE), then what whole magic spirit that I was talking about before of how things are suddenly born-- that thing goes out the window. And I think that's when pictures become self-conscious, labored and stale. I think there are so many well known painters today, most of them of another generation who have such a sense of their own image that they're just imprisoned by it. And that year after year you see a show and you say: yes, yes, it's great and only he can do it, but very often I get the feeling of having [[strikethrough]] a [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] seen it before-- as if X's show has been hanging in that place for 10 years.
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