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.
The art world is not a meritocracy; luck and being ready when the luck strikes are very important to outward success. Always be ready.
Art is a decision that you make—to live a life learning and doing a specific thing.
I believe that artists spend their lives wrestling with themselves and with their work to fulfill an ideal, a vision.
I like to attack the canvas head on, work with it, not on it, and draw meanings from materials in the process. It’s alchemy.