Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

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

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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.