I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.

Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.