My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
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.
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 dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.
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.