The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

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

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.