Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.