Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

The fear of God is to depart from evil.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

Where sanity is there God is.

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.

Moonless winter night- a billow of rising fog hides the distant pines

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. Of course, there are lots of other words he doesn't know either.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.