Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

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.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

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.