In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

I never wish for critics.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.