I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

This girl holds my heart in her hand and she's squishing it to nothing with her confession.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.