At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

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 use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.