When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, inf….

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For ….

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work..

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categoriz….

People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something t….

I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] ….

When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japane….

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books ….

I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there..

Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on….

"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world with figures and….

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning ….

Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characte….

My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down pro….