I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did.

There’s always a bear,

When you press the shutter, time won't see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment... and thats the best Farewell for that moment.

Love is like that. It's like a wildfire in my blood.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.