Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Who would have imagined a creature that has lived thousands of years would find itself short of time.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or anyone can lay down that will tell you what your dharma is.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.