I've got an age that I do think of myself.
It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
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.
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.
Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.
Your attitude is a choice.
I feel like I've influenced in the sense that if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But don't rely on what people are saying you can do or saying what you can't do.