Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.

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.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

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 am not strong on perfection.

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.