You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires