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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.