I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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

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.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.