Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.
There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.
Art is a line around your thoughts.
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women. . . There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night. . . Who ever wants to know something about me. . . ought to look carefully at my pictures.
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.
I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.