"I'm vulnerable and insecure and love life. I have come to place art second in my life and living first. I think for years I have come to obsess over and seek to exert power and control over my art and its career path and the rest of my life revolves around arts schedule. I have come to realize for me that my art is about communication and inevitably about me and my life. If this is all to be true and sincere then I must live first and communicate on this living, otherwise I only end up able to communicate on being a part of the same pattern in my studio every day the same pattern the same coping mechanism the same food to feed my ego." - Hugh Leeman