I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Knowledge is intellectual art.

Christ alone makes possible everything you are as a Christian.

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.