Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

The aim of art is to create space.

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

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

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

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.