By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

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.

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 telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

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

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