You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.