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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.