A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

Art should create an experience.

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.

We think consciously yet live life unconsciously!

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Someone ought to write a novel about me.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.