Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

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

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

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.

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.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.