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

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

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

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.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

I think words come between the spectator and 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.