As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.

I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.