I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

A negative is never finished.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week." Carl Costanza - Hot Six

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.