Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.
