You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

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.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into 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.

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

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.