I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

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

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...

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.