When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Art is for everybody.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.