Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

What makes everything one is the style.

A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.