If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.