I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

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

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

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

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.