I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.