Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

My paintings are wiser than I am.

There is no one who takes care of us as lovingly as our mother does. She is our living God.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Leave a space and something will fill it.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.