Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces..

Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings. And still life i….

You have to find what your temperament is like and live around it. I find I work really well off the top of my head because you get the unconscious i….

Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're mak….

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out..

I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they see is real, even ….

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort..

I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, ….

Paint faster than you can think..

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller….

My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a pai….

Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens….

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head..

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way..

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style….

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff..

Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it..

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put….

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse..

A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the paintin….

What's in front of me is what's most interesting..