The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

I do think that there's very little coverage of a lot of the people on Hillary Clinton's side that aren't - well, let's just start with Hillary Clinton, herself who lies for a living.

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.