Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and e….

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing..

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand..

Photorealism was this fantastic movement in like the late '60s and '70s, because photography finally became something that everyone could produce. Ph….

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue..

Star Wars came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again ….

The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feed….

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us….

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers..

I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby..

I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with….

All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm try….

Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I'….

Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably something wrong and it's not fini….

I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is to reproduce ….

Fondness for people can be terrifying, because it's intangible and it can disappear, or it can be taken away, or you can say the wrong thing. A milli….

Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the ….

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong..

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amou….

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort..