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

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

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

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.