Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.

I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before. I want also to have enough art references in it that would satisfy the most sophisticated museum goer.

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.