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.

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.

I am not strong on perfection.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

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

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.