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

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

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

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 think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.