Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."