While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

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 mess around with my subconscious

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

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

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.

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