I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

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