I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.