I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.