It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.

The aim of art is to create space.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

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

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

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.