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

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

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

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

Inspiration is for amateurs.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.