That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

Success is anything that gives you strength to work harder.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.