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

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

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

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

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.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

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.