Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.