You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.