I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

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

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.