I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

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

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

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 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 think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.