❝ One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

❝ It’s funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay.

❝ Painting is not an aesthetic operation ; it is a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

❝ I wanted to breathe smoke….I wanted to burn the Louvre. I’d do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now. This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead.