If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

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

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

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

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.