There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

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?

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

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

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

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

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.