To me, self-description is a calamity.

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.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.