After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

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

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

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

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

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.