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 am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

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

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

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.

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.