Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

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

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.

Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

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 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.