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

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

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.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

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.