An Empty Canvas Is Full.

Screwing Things Up Is A Virtue. Being Correct Is Never The Point. I Have An Almost Fanatically Correct Assistant, And By The Time She Re-spells My Words And Corrects My Punctuation, I Can't Read What I Wrote. Being Right Can Stop All The Momentum Of A Very Interesting Idea.

Sometimes I Have Taken Photographs And Just Felt So Excited That I Could Barely Hold The Camera Steady, And The Photo Was Boring.

I Prefer Images That Are Less Specific, So There Is Room For Everyone's Imagination.

And I Think That Even Today, New York Still Has More Of This Unexpected Quality Around Every Corner Than Any Place Else. It's Something Quite Extraordinary

There Was A Whole Language That I Could Never Make Function For Myself; It Revolved Around Words Like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .i Could Never See These Qualities In Paint - I Could See Them In Life And Art That Illustrates Life. But I Could Not See Such Conflicts In The Materials And I Knew That It Had To Be In The Attitude Of The Painter.