I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.