When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
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.