I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.