Chuck D. Dead Quotations

We're in that mode here where there's a dead cat bounce and that the glass is half full. At some point reality will set in and then the glass will be half empty.

When you come up in the art world, whatever's in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all the genres the most dead and seemingly bankrupt was portraiture.

My wife told me I'm not famous until someone stops you and asks if I'm that dead guy, so we haven't hit our goal.