Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do..

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becomi….

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them..

My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest..

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; i….

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you brin….

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material..

The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, ….

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over..

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art..

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric tha….

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest w….

My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves..

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation..

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a be….

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class..

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art..

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people..

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We a….

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act..

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it..