Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

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

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.

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

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?

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.