A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

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

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.