I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
I was always very...impatient about showing my paintings to people.
I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.
I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.