Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style. I felt with my painting, the style really is the content. The style holds everything together.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.