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

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

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

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.

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.