Curiosity Is The Main Energy.

I Had Been Working Purely Abstractly For So Long, It Was Important For Me To See Whether I Was Working Abstractly Because I Couldn't Work Any Other Way, Or Whether I Was Doing It Out Of Choice.

With Me, It's Much More A Matter Of Accepting Whatever Happens, Accepting All These Elements From The Outside And Then Trying To Work With Them In A Sort Of Free Collaboration.

I'm Sure We Don't Read Old Paintings The Way They Were Intended

Even At This Late Date, I Go Into My Studio, And I Think 'is This Going To Be It? Is It The End?' You See, Nearly Everything Terrorizes Me. When An Artist Loses That Terror, He's Through.

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.