The aim of art is to create space..

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will ….

You see what you know!.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you..

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere..

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters..

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the ar….

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of th….

The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back….

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work..

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up agains….

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What ….

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I….

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life..

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of p….

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It h….

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing ….

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window i….

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If….

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became ….