The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

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

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.