Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
