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.

Paint faster than you can think.

Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

What makes everything one is the style.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

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