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Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.

I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.