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.

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.

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.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

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

I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

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.