Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

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

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.

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.