I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not ….
Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it..
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity..
Go where youre celebrated - not just tolerated..
My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting..
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,….
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a….
There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..
When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for….
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious..
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of….
I've always dressed like a dude..
I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..
My cubist paintings are my most Mexican..
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless..
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art co….
I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other..
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations..
I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!.
I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny..
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it..