A biography for David Choehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”