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.

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.

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.

Love, compassion, and patience bring peace.

Hope is assurance of the promise..

I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.