I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.