There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor..

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

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….

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

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….

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

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 ….

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..

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….

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

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….

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

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..

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

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun..

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

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..

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

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 ….