It's the role of the artist to pursue content

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

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

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

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.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury