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.

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

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.

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

Abstraction is an esoteric language.