The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.