"I would prefer the company of ghosts any day."
Solitude
"In my art I try to be sincere, which is very difficult."
Art
"Everyone has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see."
Imagination
"I like thinking about the future, because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."
Hope
"If you have a success, you have to keep repeating it, which is boring."
Success
"I'm very anti-social, but I'm very social on canvas."
Solitude
"I think being bored might be a good thing. It means you can slow down."
Peace
"You see, I think everything is beautiful. I like ugly things too."
Beauty
"The more people I know, the more I like my sofa."
Solitude
"I'm the type who would be happy not going anywhere as long as I was still working."
Work
"I'd rather hear about someone's dreams than their reality."
Imagination
"In the age of television, seeing is believing, or is it."
Technology
"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name."
Death
"I've never wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make beautiful things."
Art
"I like to make ordinary things feel extraordinary."
Creativity
"The world fascinates me, so I paint the world."
"I think it's great when a person can have fun with what they do for work."
Happiness
"Buying is much more American than thinking."
"I am my own environment."
"I have days when I think I'm going to die soon, haven't we all."
"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting."
Patience
"All my life I've wanted to be a commercial artist."
Success
"I think that the repetition of things is more important than the things themselves."
Philosophy
"The best things in life are free, but you can have the rest."
Money
"I like to contradict myself just to be interesting."
Humor
"Art should be about enjoyment and understanding."
Art
"I love Los Angeles, I love being here. But there's something about New York that is unbeatable."
Adventure
"I want to know how you're going to raise consciousness about what matters."
Motivation
"The reason I'm painting this way is because I want to be a machine."
Work
"If you're thinking about something long enough, you will eventually draw it."
Creativity