Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

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

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.

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.