Quotes from John Currin

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.