Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...
Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.
It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.
I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
I work with things left over from other things.
When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.
A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
My compulsion is to create things.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.
I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
