If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.