Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

Mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom for the ultimate success.

Intuition is using the inner body energy and heart to pave the way for your life.

There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.