People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.