Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.
John CurrinI think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
John CurrinI'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.
John Currin