The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

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

Success is a worn down pencil.

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

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

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

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.