I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

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

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

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