I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

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

I don't mess around with my subconscious

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

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