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

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

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.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.