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.

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.

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.

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.

The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

I would say that's my normal thing, salad for lunch with chicken or some sort of protein and then pasta.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.