The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
That they don’t give way quickly.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗
People who can’t read my mind.
Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
Lack of self-doubt.
That I give way too quickly.
To get the most out of the world around you you’ve got to really look hard. Most people out walking in the woods don’t really look. They just glance around. They scan. Before I start a painting I spend a lot of time looking and thinking, I go out in the car and pull a chair out of the boot and sit in the woods. I sit there and smoke and just look.
I thought I was a hedonist at the time, but when I look back I was always working. I am always working. I work every day. I never give parties; I never gave them.
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