I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.