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.

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

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

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

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

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.

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