I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

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 want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.