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

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.

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.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

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.

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.