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I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

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.

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.