...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.