My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.