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" The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. "

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" I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. "

" I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. "

" I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. "

" I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. "

" Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. "

" Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas. "

" If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that. "

" One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process. "

" If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest. "

" If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual. "

" As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. "

" I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people. "

" There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive! "

" I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be. "

" When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them. "

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" I'm interested in power. "

" It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others. "

" I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life. "