The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

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.

There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.

Nothing is important... so everything is important.

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.