It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one..

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling..

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person..

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedba….

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing..

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do..

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like..

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself..

I never think that anything I do is courageous..