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.

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

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

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

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

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