The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

All ideas grow out of other ideas

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.