Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

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

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.