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.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

One works without thinking how to work.

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.

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