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.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

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

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

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.