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

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

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

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

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

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.