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

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

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

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

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

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.