“Why do we feel the need to compartmentalize our lives? We separate our family life from our art life from whatever other lives we might have, when that energy could be focused on seeing how they enhance each other.”

“Radiation is such a new idea that we don’t know what it does to DNA... When the A-bomb exploded, radiation or, as I like to call it, ‘invisible light’ pierced through my grandfather’s genes and those genes were passed onto me.”

“Invariably there’s a lot of intimate experiences, thoughts, and dreams that I’m putting on the canvas to showcase.”

“I like it when a painting terrifies me, horrifies, or surprises me because it's kind of mapping some place that I don't understand.”