It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

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.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

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

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.