What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.