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

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.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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

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

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

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