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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.