I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.