I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, you can wear it.

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.

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.

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

I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they see is real, even with the [filters]. And God bless them! But to me, it's not a self-portrait, it's a reality project.

What makes everything one is the style.