When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you'll ever need to be happy.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

The only vision (many) of you have is television.

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.