If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

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

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.