Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

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

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.