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.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

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