Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.