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

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

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.

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

When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.

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