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.

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.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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

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

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