Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

Everything you do on Earth is political.

I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a spiritual practice, but sometimes it is hard to give up control!

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.

Art is the most important way of recording history.