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

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

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.

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

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

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

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.