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

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

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

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.

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.

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

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