I Don't Work With Inspiration. Inspiration Is

I Discovered About 150 Dots Is The Minimum Number Of Dots To Make A Specific Recognizable Person. You Can Make Something That Looks Like A Head, With Fewer Dots, But You Won't Be Able To Give Much Information About Who It Is.

You Know, The Way Art History Is Taught, Often There's Nothing That Tells You Why The Painting Is Great. The Description Of A Lousy Painting And The Description Of A Great Painting Will Very Much Sound The Same.

It's Like A Magic Well. You Think You Know Everything About [a] Photograph, You Think You've Gotten Everything Out Of It, And All Of A Sudden I See Things In It I'd Never Seen Before.

Neurologically, I'm A Quadriplegic, So Virtually Everything About My Work Has Been Driven By My Learning Disabilities, Which Are Quite Severe, And My Lack Of Facial Recognition, Which I'm Sure Is What Drove Me To Paint Portraits In The First Place.

The Thing That Interests Me About Photography, And Why It's Different From All Other Media, Is That It's The Only Medium In Which There Is Even The Possibility Of An Accidental Masterpiece.