I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.