That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

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

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?

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

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

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.