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'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

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.

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.