No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

