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

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.