I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

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.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

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

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.