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Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.