My Concern Is Never Art,

It's When You've Found Out How To Do Certain Things, That It's Time To Stop Doing Them, Because What's Missing Is That You're Not Including The Risk.

And Also The New Excitement And Variety Of Ways That The Abstract Expressionists Were Applying Paint. You Could Put It On As Though It Were Colored Air And It Would Be Painting.

A Newspaper That You're Not Reading Can Be Used For Anything; And The Same People Didn't Think It Was Immoral To Wrap Their Garbage In Newspaper.

I Feel Strong In My Belief, Based On My Widely Traveled Collaborations, That A One-to-one Contact Through Art Contains Potent Peaceful Powers, And Is The Most Non-elitist Way To Share Information, Hopefully Seducing Us Into Creating Mutual Understandings For The Benefit Of All.

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.