I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

Don't consider my kindness as my weakness, the beast in me is sleeping not dead.

The bravest person in the Universe is not one with a Tyson fury's strength, but one that can invent a business idea during times of intense economy crises.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.