I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist's vision.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?