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.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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

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

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.