The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time..

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist..

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work..

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives..

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one cou….

I love flying buttresses!.

One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your ….

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day..

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody ….

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life..

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in Ameri….

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever..

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my ….

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of charact….

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change..

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes..

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better..

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding..

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime..

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways..