Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.