1981: All my work addresses the question - what is legitimate authority?
1984: There is an unacknowledged debt that modernity owes to Judaism
1991: I have come to believe, as many other artists have done, that the Bible's structure and modern art
share an anti-naturalistic perspective. But why, one might ask,make this point again, so explicitly, at this time?
1995: The Bible concerns itself with distinctions, separations, and boundaries. So does a good painting.
1998: There is proximity between the awesome terror of fearing God and creativity.
2000: I used to believe that it was uncanny how the conventions of Biblical narration so perfectly captured
the vicissitudes and quirks of reality. Now I see it is quite the other way around.
2001: There is absolutely no contradiction between a contemporary American cultural world view and Biblical
Monotheism. They constitute the same thing: victory. Victory over the irrational, over enchanted nature.
2002: These paintings are about the politics and poetry of the Bible. Psychology has been eliminated. Even if we
are reluctant to acknowledge that the modernity of the West owes a fundamental debt to Judaism, our enemies see
the link very clearly. The Hebraic roots of our American heritage are worthy of celebration, now more than ever.
