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Being able to paint the way I do.
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Staying alive, being here at this age. So many songs. It’s crazy.
Having a family and still loving each other.
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I am a terrible driver, so not having killed myself or anyone else, so far.
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View profile →Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
Picking up RAF pilots’ parachute packs and gear they dropped off in a pile.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
Trying to exercise authority over one.
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
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