I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

The key for having success is totally rejecting thoughts that try to sow doubts into your conscience

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Kind words are the music of the world.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Monogamy and prostitution go together.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.