I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.
“I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.”
“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.”