The Working Process Is Ideally Freeing My

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.

Very Quickly A Painting Is Turned Into A Facsimile Of Itself When One Becomes So Familiar With With It That One Recognizes It Without Looking At It.

I Was Much Happier When I Had Less Responsibility... When My Only Responsibility Was To My Work And To Myself.

If I Declare It To Be So, Then This Is A Portrait.

I Used To Think Of That Line In Allen Ginsberg's 'howl', About The 'sad Cup Of Coffee'.. ..i Have Had Cold Coffee And Hot Coffee And Lousy Coffee, But I've Never Had A Sad Cup Of Coffee.