I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning

What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.