You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

Basically painting is total idiocy.