Any Artist Who Goes To Las Vegas

Any Innovation That Is Evident In My Paintings Is A Direct Result Of Something That Happened In The Course Of Making A Print.

The Advice I Like To Give Young Artists, Or Really Anybody Who’ll Listen To Me, Is Not To Wait Around For Inspiration. Inspiration Is For Amateurs; The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work.

I Can't Always Reach The Image In My Mind... Almost Never, In Fact... So That The Abstract Image I Create Is Not Quite There, But It Gets To The Point Where I Can Leave It.

What Difference Does It Make Whether You're Looking At A Photograph Or Looking At A Still Life In Front Of You? You Still Have To Look.

Art Saved My Life In Two Ways. It Made Me Feel Special, Because I Could Do Things My Friends Couldn't, But It Also Gave Me A Way To Demonstrate To My Teacher That, Despite The Fact That I Couldn't Write A Paper Or Do Math, I Was Paying Attention.