I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

You were free, you are free and you will be free.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a movie with a girl.

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

An honest brew makes its own friends.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.