In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.