In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.