Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

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.

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

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

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.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

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