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

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.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

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

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.