Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

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

All ideas grow out of other ideas