I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

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

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

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.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.