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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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