I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

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

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

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

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

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.