In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.