I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

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

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

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.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else