Art Is Nothing If You Don't Reach

The Best Reason To Paint Is That There Is No Reason To Paint... I'd Like To Pretend That I've Never Seen Anything, Never Read Anything, Never Heard Anything... And Then Make Something... Every Time I Make Something I Think About The People Who Are Going To See It And Every Time I See Something, I Think About The Person Who Made It... Nothing Is Important... So Everything Is Important.

I Grew Up In Pennsylvania In A Small Town. Real Small, Like One High School And One Movie Theater. Well, There Was A State College There, That Was The Only Good Thing About It.

Whatever You Do, The Only Secret Is To Believe In It And Satisfy Yourself. Don't Do It For Anyone Else.

I Am Intrigued With The Shapes People Choose As Their Symbols To Create A Language. There Is Within All Forms A Basic Structure, An Indication Of The Entire Object With A Minimum Of Lines That Becomes A Symbol. This Is Common To All Languages, All People, All Times.

I Think As Much As Possible, An Artist, If He Has Any Kind Of Social Or Political Concern, Has To…expose As Much As Possible What He Sees So That Some People Think About Things That They Don’t Normally Think About… [art] Should Be Something That Liberates The Soul, Provokes The Imagination And Encourages People To Go Further.