I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

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?

I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.