I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)
I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.
Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!
