“I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to expres...” — Eric Fischl Quote

“I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.”

“I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.”

“The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.”

“I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.”

“Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.”

“You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.”