Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

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

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

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.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.