My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.