I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.