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

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.

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

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.

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.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there