Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

If I'm me.And you're you.Then who's this in the mirror?

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

when you lose your sails, row.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.