I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine.

Action without study is fatal.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.