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

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

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.