I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus.

Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?""Redemption, " Shane says.

Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.