When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

Gayness is a non-issue.

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Great artists suffer for the people.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.