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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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