I do believe that painting can change the world.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

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.

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