As an artist I reserve the right to change everything when I choose to.
I do love someone with really good technical skills—someone who can draw the figure like nobody’s business always gets my attention, but then, of course, they need content to back that up.
It was just me, surrounded by so much amazing artwork night after night, just me, a flashlight and the collections of popes, kings, and pin-drop silence.
I feel that contemporary art creatives today must address the social and environmental catastrophes that are happening every day in our world.
I’ve never finished a piece because it’s done. I’ve only stopped working on them because I can no longer make them better.
Vulnerability is the most challenging part of being an artist.
Growing up in a household of artists I was expected to become an artist. Business was frowned upon. My parents believed in art more than money.
The best education an artist can have is working for another artist and witnessing the fortitude it takes to create, sell, and maintain a living as a working artist.
If my work was found centuries later, what work would I want to be found? What would it be made of? What meaning would come from it?
In this era of social media, more people can see what other people are doing, but the price for that has been a loss of privacy and time to develop, replaced by seemingly non-stop self-promotion.