Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

That would be interesting to me even if there wasn't a museum.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.