The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.

The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.

If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

The truth is, my experience in matters sexual is limited.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?