Anything Simple Always Interests Me.

Before He Did All Those Lovely Line Drawings, Matisse Would Make Really Detailed Charcoal Drawings And Tear Them Up. He Wouldn't Leave Them About... I Understand What He Was Doing: Discovering What's There... To Make The Line Meaningful, To Find A Linear Solution.

...all Along I've Had An Ambivalent Relationship To Photography - But As To Whether I Thought It An Art Form, Or A Craft, Or A Technique, Well, I've Always Been Taken With Henry Geldzahler's Answer To That Question When He Said, I Thought It Was A Hobby.

I've Never Been Interested In, Much In The Politics Of The Art World, It Doesn't Interest Me.

No Theoretician, No Writer On Art, However Interesting He Or She Might Be, Could Be As Interesting As Picasso. A Good Writer On Art May Give You An Insight To Picasso, But, After All, Picasso Was There First.

The 'how' Has A Great Effect On What We See. To Say That 'what We See' Is More Important Than 'how We See It' Is To Think That 'how' Has Been Settled And Fixed. When You Realize This Is Not The Case, You Realize That 'how' Often Affects 'what' We See.