I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

What you see is what you see.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

You see what you know!

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

The aim of art is to create space.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

Creativity isn’t necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a “connect-the-dots” adventure.

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.