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

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

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.

That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.