I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.