Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. E….

People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change..

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second..

I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently..

What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together.

When life closes a door, God opens a window..

I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, ….

In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where there was food, different perhaps fro….

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages..

At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban area not far from….

I was always busy doing something, being an only child..

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program..

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster..

In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to be….

The environment itself was culturally a vacuum, in that there was simply nothing that would inspire me in the arts. But my parents were always very s….

He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, wa….

The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving t….

It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not….

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up..

At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantas….