My father taught me three things very well: first, perfectly organizing a toolbox (an activity that everyone in my studio must do at some point); second, greet everyone when you arrive somewhere, it's a matter of education and humility; and third, rigor. My father knew very well how to teach me the meaning of rigor through example and compliance with rules.

Sketches are quick, timely, inexpensive, disposable and plentiful, have a clear vocabulary, have a constrained gesture and an appropriate degree of refinement, are ambiguous and more important “suggest & explore rather than confirm” — sketches don’t “tell” they “suggest”*