If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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