I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that..

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won..

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a histor….

People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and th….

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words..

I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual th….

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape..

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves..

I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to "Air America," down at the - libera….

I wanted my style to be very recognizable..

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the….

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it..

I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist bu….

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school..

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really..

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art hi….

Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them ….

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece..

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate..

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is wh….

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me..