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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

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.