All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.