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

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

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

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.

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

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.