I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

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

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

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

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

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.

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