Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

People become artists out of despair.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

Vampires love to gossip. They live for drama...

I wanna hear you say my name when you come. Just so you know who made you feel like this." - Mitch Knox

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.