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

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.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.