I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.
Tommy's Mother: Has Tommy ever told you about my painting?
Dmitri: [pointing to painting] What's the meaning of this shit?
