In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.