All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.