My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

Love just feels like the truth

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

The same people neglecting and hating are the ones going through issues in their own lives, and they're scared to face that.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.