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

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

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

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

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 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.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.