To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

I get so high when you're with me then crash and crave you when you leave

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.