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.

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 am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.