The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

Love holds the key to every heart.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.