The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

Your dream is real

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And you don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.