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My favorite activity is to be with my family.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I'm interested in power.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

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

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

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 was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

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

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 better place.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

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.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

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