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

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

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

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."

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

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.

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