It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

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.

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 think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

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.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.