You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

Every book is a unique experience.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.