I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

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

It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.