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

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 l….

A negative is never finished..

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….

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..

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

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

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel..

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

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

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

What interests me is the unforeseeable..