I'm interested in power.

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 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.

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

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.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

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