Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Paint faster than you can think.

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, you can wear it.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.

Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated.

How can you ask me to keep a secret... when you can't keep it yourself?

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.