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

You see what you know!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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