A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

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.

Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.