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

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

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

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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

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