David Choe

“You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.”

“I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved a lot.”

“I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.”

“When I lived in New York, never in my life had I been more mistaken for another than David Chang.”

“I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.”

“As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.”

“Comfort is the killer of creativity.”

“By nature, I'm a very self-destructive person, but all that happens is that I just get more successful every time I do it. Someday I'll come crashing down, so that's why I try to keep a good attitude about it all.”

“You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I cannot buy my privacy back.”

“I did everything I wanted to when I had nothing.”

“I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.”

“I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.”