I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.

I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.