I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.

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.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.