Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

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

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.

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

A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.

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.