Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make life easier. Obviously painting has to do with something….

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function..

There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered gestalt, usually. I've a….

I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history of the decorative, patterns of cult….

I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is work that takes on more th….

I have been very influenced by the Japanese concept of space - the preciousness of space, and how one's environment can be shaped to make the most ou….

I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not int….

I don't want to fetishize the past. I want there to be a natural sequence coming out of a synthesis of the ideas and information that I gather togeth….

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to ….

What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic background and what I'm….

For me, the whole idea of the radically new is tied to a close reconsideration of older sources. I like to give myself over to those sources, as poin….

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it..

I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reas….

I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the….

I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range o….

Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art ca….

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one wants to see manifest, what on….

An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and….