Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
