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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.