The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

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

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

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.

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

Inspiration is for amateurs.