On Inspirations
“I’m lucky enough to live in New York City where people travel from all over to be a part of an artist's creative vision, to become muses. The streets are flooded with undiscovered ‘It-Girls’, ‘It Boys’, and everything in between. I’m very lucky to have worked with some of the most interesting, sexy, mysterious, and creative cultural figures in this town; and I’m just getting started.”
On Creative References
“The internet is the greatest creative library that has ever been devised. Not only does it contain access to every single image in recorded history, but it’s being updated minute-by-minute with millions (maybe billions) of new images every day. And it’s all accessible on a tiny computer that fits in your pocket. It bends the mind to think of what’s possible today.”
On Practicalities
“As an inveterate daydreamer it took me many years to develop a system where I could actually turn my visions into reality. Many, many failures. I must have discovered at least 10,000 ways how not to make a painting. Ultimately, I discovered that the point of art is not to make one great painting, but to develop a “system” that can make great paintings. This all developed in the factory of the mind.”
On The Work Process
“I have a very methodical process. There’s some room for mystical intervention in the beginning, sure, but once I really go it’s very precise and systematic.”
On Pushing Boundaries
“Pushing boundaries means being willing to look like a total fool among your peers, your followers, everyone who may be paying attention. It can be daunting, until I remember that life is just a grand experiment anyway.”
On The Message of Art As A Cultural Weapon
“I don’t think of art as a weapon, but as a seduction. You simply cannot make people adore you by force. In this way I aspire to be less like Napoleon and more like Casanova: a Casanova of painting.”
