I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

Every book is a unique experience.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.