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 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 ….

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 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'….

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

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

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..

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 ….

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 ….

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….

The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the stuff that I've done. It's all selfish. It is ….

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..

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..

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..