Anything Where We're The Butt Of The

Painters Should Shut Up And Paint And When We Stop Painting We Should Dance Or Have Sex Or Get A Massage Or Take A Shower And We Shouldn't Be Talking About Painting.

I'm Just A Public-schoolboy. I've Got A Degree. I'm From A Middle-class Family In Devon. I've Got No Story.

The Word Mystical Is An Even Worse Word Than Spirituality - That Artists Take Drugs, And Then They Add Some Crazy Extra Thing To What We All Know Is Real. But Our Job As Artists Or As Human Beings Is To Investigate What We Really Think Is Real.

All That Stuff About Flatness - It's This Idea That Painting Is A Specialized Discipline And That Modernist Painting Increasingly Refers To Painting And Is Refining The Laws Of Painting. But Who Cares About Painting? What We Care About Is That The Planet Is Heating Up, Species Are Disappearing, There's War, And There Are Beautiful Girls Here In Brooklyn On The Avenue And There's Food And Flowers.

Everything In My Life Is A Fragile Decision That Somebody Else Made.