“[Religion is] all a sham, but I’m being up front about it and putting it out on the table. I enjoy that aspect of it; it’s the old switcheroo!”

“… As a person, I just really love to dig and dig and dig… I like it when there’s a whole series of layers underneath.”

“I [would] just always go to thrift stores and just see these beautiful, beautiful blankets and stuff that were like two bucks… Now, the aesthetic has come into fashion, so it’s kind of like, of course people see that stuff and like it – but when I was collecting it, nobody liked it; it was just crap.”

“Handwork is not something that needs to be inherently feminine, and I like that idea.”

“It’s always exciting to enter new territory, having no idea what might happen.”

“Since most art dealing with consumerism seems too matter-of-fact, I want my work to be allegorical, being humorous and visually interesting but imparting a deeper message. Why the hell do we need all this stuff, anyways?”

“Through the chaos, there’s a thread.”

“[Losing my job] was a blessing in disguise. I was really stressed out when it happened, but it motivated me to work on my art.”

“… I’m trying not to turn my back on… the origin of exploration and discovery that I had when I was a little kid. If you turn your back on that, then you’re done… you’ve lost the thing that started it all, that made it beautiful, that made things strange, and new,”

“As I got older, I learned that if you can convey a story with an image, then you’re good; you’re golden.”

“I was painting fairly realistic, naturalistic subject matter at that point, and I was frustrated, so I decided I would just use the dumbest material I could find — something that wasn’t meant for art making and wasn’t so precise.”

“My goal is to use my emotional connection to the metaphysical imagery of Christianity to heighten my ability to articulate the psychological truth of my everyday life.”

“If I get a little burnt out on the visual art and hand-rendering thing, I can kind of chill out and go into music… it’s still exercising the mind in the same way — just on a totally different platform.”

“I can’t really explain why it is that I focus my art on such deviant topics, other than maybe that they are such a draw [because they are] the deviancy that appeals as a dark side to our civilized side.”

“I feel like more people are discovering [comic books] and realizing that it’s a medium where you can pretty much do anything. There’s no limit.”

“One day, I decided that I’d never become an artist if I never had time to do it, so I quit [my job]. It was a really hard decision because it was a really fun job and I had a lot of great friends and connections through it, but I really had to get out of it if I wanted to do what I really wanted to do.” – Brennan Coyle