There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.