There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.