Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Success is a worn down pencil.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.