As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.

We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.