Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art g….

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long..

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings….

Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going..

You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let ….

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

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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..