I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.