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.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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

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

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.