I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.