Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by David Choe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist David Choe.

Last updated on April 18, 2025.

David Choe is an American artist, musician, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for magazines including Hustler, Ray Gun and Vice. He has an ongoing relationship with the Asian pop culture store-cum-magazine Giant Robot. He once hung his work in a Double Rainbow ice cream shop located on Melrose Avenue. His figurative paintings, which explore themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation, are characterized by a raw, frenetic method that he has termed "dirty style."

American - Artist | Born: April 21, 1976

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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.

David Choe

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.

David Choe

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

David Choe

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

David Choe

I did everything I wanted to when I had nothing.

David Choe

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

David Choe

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

David Choe

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

David Choe

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

David Choe

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

David Choe

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

David Choe

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

David Choe

I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist.

David Choe

There is no balance, all or nothing.

David Choe

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by David Choe

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