I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse.

Better in Hell with me than alone in Heaven.

A high functioning palate allows you to live without sugar and salt

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.