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….

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

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

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….

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

Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buf….

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching..

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….

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up w….

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at ….

Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours..

I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I ….

I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So there was a continuum o….

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 graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had ….

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….

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing..

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that..

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

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

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