I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

The internet has extended the possibility of making art to more people, and particularly of enabling it to be seen by others. I am sure the internet is having a profound impact on art, particularly those who have grown up with it, but making good art will remain as difficult (and as easy) as it ever was. Having a lasting impact may become more not less difficult.