I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that. I like the idea that if you make ….

In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have t….

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore..

At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on ….

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical..

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upsi….

Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No c….

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and trou….

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. B….

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper ….

I made silk screens of my drawings. I could add a drawing that was made with a machine or digitally to a drawing that was made by hand. What I love i….

I'm in this process of trying to create a free space. Like an open field, where figure and ground are in very ambivalent, complex relationships. On t….

You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point wh….

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me..

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it..

I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not ….