It's an investment of time. If you want to be good at anything, you have to invest the time and the mental energy to do it. My goal is to make a living being a creative person. ... It's possible. I think it's possible.

This is a big step for me professionally, and I hope it will help my reputation to grow as a professional artist. This is a tangible result of having a goal.

Sometimes the paintings decide what they are going to be. That's fun. That means I'll be tapping into something good.

I'm setting my goals high and I'm working hard. I think that what I'm doing is pretty good. You have to have confidence in yourself, or who will give you a second look? ... You have to believe in yourself.

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.