I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.