I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.