Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

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

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

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.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.