Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

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

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.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.