One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

Art should create an experience.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.