You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.

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.

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

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

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.