Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?