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..

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….

What you see is what you see..

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….

The aim of art is to create space..

You see what you know!.

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

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….

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

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 ….

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