With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.