In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.