When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

Finster gained national fame after his collaborative work with Athens Georgia-based rock band R. Finster first came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for bands such as R. Along with R.

E. His creations overlap folk art outsider art naïve art and visionary art.