I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.