The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.