I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.