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.

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 had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

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

You see what you know!

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.

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.