You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

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.

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

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

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 wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

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.