Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.