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….

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

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

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 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….

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 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….

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….

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'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'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 ….

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….

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 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….

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….

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….