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.

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

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

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

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.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.