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.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

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

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 don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.