I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.