I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.