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

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

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.

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

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

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

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.