I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.