When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.