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

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.

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

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

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

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

I was starting to fall for him, He didn't say it but the wayHe looked at me, Told me he felt the same.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

If you like Battlestar Galactica...you're probably a huge nerd.