Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

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

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.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

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.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.