I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

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

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.

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

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.