Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Some men and women move mountains, even if it's one shovel full at a time.

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.