If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.

My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a painter. So he thought it was much better than being, say, a doctor.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

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

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

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