I love flying buttresses!

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!