I think I am probably a lot like my father.

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.