I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

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

Inspiration is for amateurs.

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

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

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