I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.