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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.