He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse.
Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.
When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.
A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh. . . but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.
One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it