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.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

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.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

I'm working in my mind.

There was very little art in my childhood.