I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

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.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

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

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

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.