ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever.

What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.