The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.