My eyes, having seen everything, returned to the white chrysanthemum

It comes from cross-pollination, unexpected combinations, and head-on collisions

There is great poetry and power in repetition, in doing the same thing over, and over, and over, and over again.

My entire philosophy of how I organize myself as a working painter can be summed up by something George Carlin said: “Just keep movin’ straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.”

You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is... See more

For me, creativity isn’t born when everything is tidy and separate. It comes from cross-pollination, unexpected combinations, and head-on collisions between things that don’t necessarily go together

“All the talent in the world is meaningless without an atomic work ethic.”

Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom

“The only way to be a painter is to make paintings. That means not doing other stuff.”

“The only way to be a painter is to make paintings. That means not doing other stuff.”