Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.