I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that.

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do a great deal of tropes. This past decade has seen a new term, "meme," which is exactly what I'm studying.

Fondness for people can be terrifying, because it's intangible and it can disappear, or it can be taken away, or you can say the wrong thing. A million things, so it's so uncomfortable. So when you suddenly become aware of it because they don't call you or something for half an hour or whatever, you lose it.

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.