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

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

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

To me, self-description is a calamity.

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.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

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