If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

The main thing is not to be dead.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.