I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.