I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

From the same window, you keep seeing the same view!

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.