I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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.

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

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

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

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

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.