It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

- Josh Smith

I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off and share parts of myself with others. I …

- Josh Smith

And the cool kids always had a stop sign in their bedroom. Which means: "I don't care if people die. I want my stop sign." At least the assumption wa…

- Josh Smith

I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.

- Josh Smith

I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a f…

- Josh Smith

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like …

- Josh Smith

Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make somethi…

- Josh Smith

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

- Josh Smith

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really cl…

- Josh Smith