In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with.

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction