You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

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

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

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.