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.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

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

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.