When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

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

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

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

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.