I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

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.

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

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

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.