I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

This isn’t a church social, Sweetheart. You aren’t going to be able to save me this time.

A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

The Nazis were well dressed. Today's racists are a rag-tag bunch with no sense of style or panache.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.