I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

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.

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

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

You see what you know!