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.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

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