Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Formally trained as a painter, McCarthy's main interest lies in everyday activities and the mess created by them. McCarthy's works include performance, sculpture, installation, film, and "painting as action". The text below was written by the artist for The99.

Architecture box cage skull architecture as in film set the theater set as in metaphor architecture skull dream house box architecture the dream in the set architecture the action played out in the set cage maze as vented trauma or the action the work is accessible in the lower extremities the degree of provocation depending on the who and the when and the where go back down the hall hell the world violence artist as in freedom as in liquid art as liquid my situation can’t bend to demands for clarity and morality from outside nothing else to say have to let it grow on its own so to speak it is an endless revolt an endless cycle as viewed as process constant revolving to those who see it as vile a disease he shits in the house and eats it abstraction verbiage as obstruction a bump in thought I give you nothing because there is nothing to give he said the other said wrong she said.