Richard Phillips

“People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.”

“Painting is a coalescing of experience.”

“If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.”

“I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.”

“When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.”

“I believe it is the responsibility of our government to protect the U.S., including U.S.-flag vessels.”

“Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.”

“If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.”

“There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.”

“'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.”

“The SEALs have a sense of community I've never seen anywhere. Not just the guys but the wives, widows, kids of fallen heroes.”

“I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.”

“There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.”

“I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.”

“Nothing is over until you quit.”

“Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.”

“These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.”

“For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.”

“We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.”

“I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'”