I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.