I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.