These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.