I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.