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.

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 we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

I'm obsessed with my children.

There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!