The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.