In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.