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.

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.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

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.

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

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 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.