Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

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.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

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

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.