All art is self-portraiture.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the system that works at Yale. There's the group critiques, and then there's the one-on-one critiques that happen in studio.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the respect that I had for his own work and the ability for him to translate his ideas into useful form for me as a student.

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

I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.