“Art is a journey. And you never really arrive, but you get better and better hopefully. And with the evolution of your art, hopefully there's also the evolution of your character and everything that makes you the best person that you can be. Expressive arts calls for courage from the time you lift up your pen or pick up your camera or put brush to canvas. These are all motivations that come from your experiences, from the things that you want to share with others as stories or frozen moments (which are also stories). And we need to make certain that we value the expressive arts as part of being a complete human being in the 21st century. The arts have taken a back seat to a lot of different things that are driven by opportunity and money, and that seem risk averse. And yet art, which provides high rewards, also comes with high risk, and that's why it takes courage to become a practitioner or to follow your path. Not to say that you can't be many things, and art is a stream of that, which I think should always be the case—no matter if you are a doctor, a scientist, a teacher, a truck driver, a cashier, in retail. There should always be an avenue for artistic expression in your life.”