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.

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

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?

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

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.

I 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.