I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

Love the people who love you back.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.