Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.