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.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.