I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.