You have to bring books to explain your work.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.