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.

My compulsion is to create things.

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.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

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 think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

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.