Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.

She drank the bottle.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.