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

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

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.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

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

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