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

There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

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

There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.

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

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.