"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 bones. The way they are put together."

"I don't want to live in a world where I have to be careful about what I say or do."

"I think it's so foolish for people to want to be painters in this day and age. It's such a dead art."

"I decided to start anew — to strip away what I had been taught and to search for myself."