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

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrativ….

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in pain….

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious..

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

You see what you know!.

What you see is what you see..

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 ….

The aim of art is to create space..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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 ….

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 ….