The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.
When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.
I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.