I'm Quite Taken Aback When I Get

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.

I Got So I Was Really Just Sick Of Sculpture.

Painting Is Always Strongest When In Spite Of Composition, Color, Etc., It Appears As A Fact, Or An Inevitability, As Opposed To A Souvenir Or Arrangement.

Success Is A Worn Down Pencil.

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.