No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

Love is like mayonaisse: when it separates, you've got to throw it away and start again.

thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.