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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?