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

What makes everything one is the style.

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

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.

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.

Paint faster than you can think.