You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Anything can be painted without representation.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.