I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.