I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.