When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself

Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time.

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.