My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.