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 most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

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

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.