Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
When I haven't any blue I use red.
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.