I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

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.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.