"I had to get rid of all the things that weren't me."

"The days were so full of what I was doing and what I was seeing that I didn't think about anything else."

"I have always been interested in the way the plants grow in the desert. They are so resilient."

"I found that I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for."

"I have always been interested in the clouds. The way they move and change."