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

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

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.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.