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

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.

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

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.

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.

In spite of minor hassles, life was good.

Lasik surgery has evolved. Remarkably, it has merged with cataract surgery to give birth to a new procedure called Prelex.

December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.