Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

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.

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

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.