"What was photography for me? Coming from geometric, hard-edge painting, from which the outside world was excluded, it seemed a window open on life. I could show what I saw and what I thought. I was an artist who used photography, as they say, but not to make art, on the contrary, to remake it. My motto when I was doing New York was anything goes. It still suits me: no rules, no prohibitions, no limits. I still shut myself away to paint and write, and go out to photograph, make films and much else."