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.

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

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

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

I am not strong on perfection.