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

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.

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.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

If I ever get to go to the moon, I’ll probably just stand on the moon and go ‘Hmmm, yeah…fair enough…gotta go home now.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.