Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

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.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

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

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.