I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.