I hate painting.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.