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.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Success is a worn down pencil.

Curiosity is the main energy.

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.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

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