The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

I just want to pour my soul out on someone and not have to worry about the mess I’ve made.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

Moral: It all depends.

You can't have a motion without a debate.

There are some things that sorry can't fix. - Acheron Parthenopaeus