Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.

We see the world through our experience.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.