Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.