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.

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

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

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

I tend to like things that already exist.

I am not strong on perfection.

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