One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.