“In Japanese painting, you always try to keep the feeling of a beginner…It’s this kind of forward-looking attitude: You can always grow and you can always improve, and the practice of today is the practice of the day and it will always bring you forward.”
“Sketching outdoors is like an experience. I have to be out in the elements and use all my senses: What can I hear, what can I see, what can I smell? That’s all part of it. I love the wind on my face, the wind taking the paint, or the rain going onto the page.”
“I always think like with everything in life, there’s usually not one decision that makes anything happen — good or bad. I always think it’s a whole pile of little stones that pile up into a mountain, into a big pile of good things. That’s how I started sketching.”