I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

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 always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

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.