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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

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

I found I have to stay painting.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.