Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.