I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art