Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

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.

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

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