OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

California is always in my mind.