A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

I had a dream about you last night.. You were playing with chicken livers and told me everyone was in quarantine.

The day we stop yearning, is the day we stop learning.

I wonder how two imperfect people can create perfect love.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love of alcohol, and my love of turning up.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

You can't spell Citrus without UT