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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.