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.

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.

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

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

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.