I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

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.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

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