Success is a worn down pencil.

Curiosity is the main energy.

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

Basically painting is total idiocy.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

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.