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.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

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

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.