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My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

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

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.