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

Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

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

There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?