I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea ….

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it..

There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value ….

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling..

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you..

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do..

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need..

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if ….

A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either ….

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them..

That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist nee….

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to b….

There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to t….

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all va….

I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid….

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game..

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality..

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to sto….

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation..

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making..

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you..