Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

It all felt good. It all tasted good. I really felt we were going to figure that one out somehow. We just couldn't finish it off.

Because gold represents light to me. Gold and crystal. Because I need light for painting and I also need light to look. It's the most fascinating thing, how it changes.