I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.