Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

It is all in the way of professional experience.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.