If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

I don't mess around with my subconscious

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.