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

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.

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

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

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.