Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

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

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.