There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.