“Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.”

“I'm painting color squares. Onesquare - one color. That's what I paint.”

“A blah is a terrible thing to waste!”

“Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.”

“to see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?”

“I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.”

“No one's ever going to play this guitar. NO, don't even touch. Don't even look at it. Time to look away now.”