Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.