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

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

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

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

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.

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

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