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

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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.

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

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.