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The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.