Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I'm interested in power.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.