At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

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

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

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.