I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.