You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.