Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.