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.
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
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.
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
