I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

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

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

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

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.