I think that artists have a responsibility to work as fiercely as the can in their studios in exchange for the privilege of making things that the world doesn’t necessarily ask for. I think that artists should be engaged in the world in ways outside of their artwork – politically, socially, not necessarily through their artwork, but just as citizens. I don’t much believe in the hermit artist, in other words. And I believe in some overall sense of, you know, generosity of spirit in the work that gets transmitted, hopefully to the audience. Those are my tenets.

Inside The Painter’s Studio, Joe Fig, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009