I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.