All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

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

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