Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot of the artists I like share this understanding.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.