In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

If you dance daily, you shall expel any seed of distress in thy soul.

Learn to absorb your anger inside youIt will be your best partner till you breath

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.