The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.