I Learned You Could Suffer A Terrible

Sometimes I Really Want To Paint Somebody And I Don't Get A Photograph That I Want To Work From.

I Think The Problem With The Arts In America Is How Unimportant It Seems To Be In Our Educational System.

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.

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.