I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

I don't mess around with my subconscious

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

It is impossible to have progress without conscience