When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
Live your Art. Don't think about it.
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
