Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

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