I Wanted To Create Something That People

I'd Never Even Thought About Compromise When I Worked In My Studio. The Major Distinction Is In The Priority Of Who I Ultimately Wanted To Please: Myself Or The Audience.

We're All Products Of What We Want To Project To The World. Even People Who Don't Spend Any Time, Or Think They Don't, On Preparing Themselves For The World Out There - I Think That Ultimately They Have For Their Whole Lives Groomed Themselves To Be A Certain Way, To Present A Face To The World.

I Want[ed] To Make A Show Of Really Big Pictures, Because You See Male Artists Doing It All The Time. It Just Seemed Like Such A Big Egotistical Thing. I Thought, 'i Don't Know That Many Women That Really Do That.... Damn It, I'm Gonna Do That-make This Really Big Picture.'

My Dad Was Such A Bigot. He Was A Horrible, Self-centred Person. He Was Really Racist And He'd Talk About The Jews And Blacks And Catholics Even.

I Didn't Want To Make 'high' Art, I Had No Interest In Using Paint, I Wanted To Find Something That Anyone Could Relate To Without Knowing About Contemporary Art. I Wasn't Thinking In Terms Of Precious Prints Or Archival Quality; I Didn't Want The Work To Seem Like A Commodity.