I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.