Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

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

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.