I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

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

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

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

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.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.