Few books today are forgivable.
My life has been regulated by insomnia.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.
I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be. ' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.