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.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

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

Success is a worn down pencil.