Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.