As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that yo….

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before..

I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessari….

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting th….

The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a bo….

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of ….

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't….

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it..

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics..

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture..

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience..

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to fi….

I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to ….

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me..

Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to ho….

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for….

It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm ….

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too..

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten..

The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?.

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking f….