I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.