I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor.

In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.

I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.