I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

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.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.