The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image; it’s about the viewer. That’s where the art happens.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that’s what art is.
The media, the galleries, the collectors – it’s all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn’t have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
I’m making some of the greatest art being made now. It’ll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
I try to create work that doesn’t make viewers feel they’re being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
I’d have to say I’ve become more aware of my communal responsibility.
When I view the world, I don’t think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.
Ive always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. Thats what Ive always done.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I’m always looking for source material.
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you’ve given up control.
My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It’s a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that’s taking place in the art gallery.