When I open the furnace to gather glass, I feel with my whole body.  I am watching a whole different world through that little hole of the furnace.

I want to tell everybody by my art, ‘Touch me, please. I am your friend.’

… I have explored and expanded the accent on the continuous line in my work, to express whole thought and form with a continuous, single broad stroke...I am trying to integrate Eastern spirituality and Western art form.

... the profession (artist) is strictly a vehicle for self discovery, so all the things that I make are basically crutches to figure out where my leg grows from.....

...I would like my work to function independent of my time period, so that when my work is seen 500 years from now ....that the images are archetypal and universal enough to be reintegrated into society in another form....

...a painting can be made about anything,  Any experience, I think, can be fit somehow in the visual continuum.....

.... I like to focus on moment by moment....

(... six. months before the World Trade Center’s destruction )I  started doing work that was oddly celebratory and soothing.  Drops of water, exploding champagne bottles, and ticker tape ....

...I feel very connected to the earth.  I think it’s inevitable whenever you are raised in an area where people earn their living two miles underground and where the hills sometimes catch on fire.

Most of my work has to do with, I would say, memory and narrative.....I like the work to be proponents that will outlive me, that has a sense of collective history of man and mankind....

...In this (Sensor Cell) work I am thinking wood and stick and stone....The Tool Discovery Time ....This is what resonates with me....the first man had surprise and happiness and it is this memory that returns....

.... I became an abstract painter, because I believe painting is an act of freedom, an act of bravery, an act of daring issues that you   have to identify....

… if anyone can look at these little landscapes that I do and look at the world in a more loving or, or a way that makes them filled with awe, I will have felt very honored to be able to do that.

...I like the idea that I am creating daily maps or testaments to a life being lived and that in the mark making is where I am laying the history of my life...

...Wood sculpture is so good for our life, because it is the culture of our people...

...(my work) is a visual metaphor....it is important to be at my work for a longer time, because it is not so easy to understand quickly...

...I love how, when you’ve been with somebody for so many years, they’ll just come up with some little detail that you’ve never heard anything about before...

...it (the poem Pissing) draws off my deep interest and belief in the body as really the source of poetry, but also as the element through which humans transform...

... As I continue to explore the vessels that I make, I continue to learn more about the ultimate vessel, which is myself.

...I use beads as tiny molecules of light, and as I work, I feel that I am catching the light...

Language can deceive us if we believe in its absolutes ...but it can also open doors for us.

What I do comes rather subconsciously to me  ... Sometimes it starts with a pencil on paper.  Sometimes directly with an ax in my hands...

I celebrate the imperfect, the broken off, missing pieces...I believe everything and everyone is connected.

Now I am a poet, not in society, but more in nature.  And I feel the changes in nature, and I must testify.

I’d like to think of myself as having intentions that arise from the heart, rather than the head.

...I try never to work on my art unless I am somewhat peaceful, so I can convey what I think art is supposed to say...

… the idea behind that (“erronique”) is to perfect the art of errors.

...Painting is a form of self expression ...But when you work, to be expressive means to be intuitive, involuntary...

...I am not a city man.  I need nature...I believe that in silence, in the meditation, there lies energy, a radiant power...

...I know/ it’s only me, reminding myself/a flower is one station between/ earth’s wish and earth’s rapture... 
    from Have You Prayed?

...For me, it is important that art remains a place where all choices are possible, all opinions are possible, all gestures are possible...

...I am improving my sculpture and also my handcraft carving.  I hope...my sculpture will go to global or international exhibition.

...Important, I believe, to resist closure in one’s own work while assiduously working toward its completeness.... 

This is a poem called Root Darkness, ‘ cause I would love the idea of my mother being somewhere in Lithuania and part of that world and part of that earth.

...I have been painting for seventy years ..I’ve never been a good reader or a speller, but thank goodness I was able to paint because that filled up my life.

...art is a universal language.... Nature provides us with possibilities of expressing ourselves and finding a way of finding peace within ourselves.

.... what’s important is that the ideas and the experiences (of my work) are put into circulation rather than any particular individuality I may or may not have....

.... as a poet, I am much more of a listener than I am a writer......

So many ideas can come from so few words, so few notes.  My first book was only two hundred and two words.