Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting..

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm….

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out..

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them….

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need….

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened ….

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake ….

Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking ab….

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings you….

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world..

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be..

I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time between of my father and a great painter I stu….

This morning I got up early and I was glazing the paintings and they just looked so beautiful. I had a private moment of "yeah, I'm behind this." Whi….

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art ….

People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people actually project actual scenarios o….

I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating ….

I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of har….

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of ….

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art..

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category..

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs..