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.

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

And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.