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.

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

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

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'm always so sick of myself after a show.

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.