Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.