Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.