The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise