It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

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

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

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

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