I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

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.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.