Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.