If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

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.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.