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

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

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.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

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.